Pubdate: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 Source: Sacramento News & Review (CA) Copyright: 2015 Chico Community Publishing, Inc. Contact: http://newsreview.com/sacto/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/540 Author: Patrick Moore Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n063/a04.html LEGALIZATION THE HERER WAY Re "Up in smoke" by David Downs (SN&R News, January 29): Or they could just get behind the finest cannabis-legalization initiative in the world and make this simple for everyone. Jack Herer wrote The Emperor Wears No Clothes and followed that with a brilliant legalization initiative titled the California Cannabis Hemp Initiative (#CCHI2016), which ensures fair and equal access to the "new trillion-dollar crop" focusing on protecting existing medical laws and enabling personal and industrial uses to become the bedrock of a new economy. Hemp can save the planet, but only if we have widespread and fair access to it. We're talking about hemp fuel, fiber, plastics, food and medicine- a real game changer, while they just keep trying to control, dominate, tax and regulate weed sales. Californians aren't stupid and we won't settle for less than we deserve. As Herer said, "If you can't grow it, it ain't legal!" Patrick Moore Los Angeles - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom